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A great example of a female Salmon Ghost. Most males have this much (and even more coral coloration) but often females aren’t this colorful. Of course, with so many people selectively-breeding for most color saturation, this may be a relatively inferior Salmon (Coral) Ghost in a few years?
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This adult female Topaz (Caramel Lava) and her unrelated adult groom (below) just emerged from brumation, so later this summer we should have their babies to offer for sale. Male pic . . .
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Comparison of a Scaleless Extreme Okeetee adult with one of his scaled Extreme Okeetee Het Scaleless progeny.
note: ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including scaled corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids.
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This adult male Sunrise Amel corn is now 35″ long, eating frozen/thawed small adult mice. Obviously, the value of Sunrise Amel double mutants isn’t their Sunglow-like coloration but how they will impact other mutant compounds via the blending of the Sunrise mutation with other color and pattern mutations? His $195.00 USD price includes S .
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A newly hatched Sunrise Amel Tessera demonstrating a phenotype similar to a Snow, but with the slightest blush of orange.
Shown here–at just a few weeks of age–Sunrise Amel (below) and Sunrise Amel Tessera (above) in their neonatal colors just prior to the beginning of extreme orange color saturation that intensifies through maturity. Hence, the name SUNRISE–as looking similar to pale Amels or Snows with a blush of orange, but slowly transforming to deeply red/orange adults through maturation, not unlike the transition from early sunrise to full DAYlight.
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A work-in-progress we are thiiiisssssssssss close to eliminating the yellow (therefore, orange) in this project. One more generation of breeding this one to perhaps one of our new RED mutants and we’ll have an amazing new corn morph. This is one of the red-on-red Fluorescent corns I mentioned previously, but we won’t be selling any of the red babies until we reach our goal of red perfection. This is one business where it pays to be “picky”, right?
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A typical adult SMR Salmon Snow corn snake.
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We will be making and selling more of these gems this summer. These are Scaleless Anery Tessera corn snakes from the 2015 hatching season. Most have few or no scales anywhere but their bellies and around their mouths, but some–like the one showing all the black freckling–have random tiny scales that appear in some assemblage of fragmented pattern. Those black freckles are actually tiny, round black scales. Note: ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY derive from the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids. Bonus Pic . . .
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Another 2015 Scaleless Anery Tessera corn.
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Over a decade ago, when my dear friend, Marsha Matthews (poppycorns.com) was in the process or unraveling the mystery of what makes Coral-type Snows so much more colorful than their classic Snow counterparts, I recall her telling me that in her endeavors to see how the colors would transform via selective-breeding she went TOO far. When I asked what she meant she declared that instead of intensifying the pink and coral colors in successive generations, they virtually always became orange when she continued to cross the most colorful Coral and Pink ones. Of course, when you first see one of these that turned orange they make you think you succeeded in making perfectly pink or coral Snows, but when they mature, they are orange. There is no better demonstration of what she meant than the Cotton Candy Snow Corns Graham created from pairing a JMG Coral Snow to a SMR Super Salmon Snow. The “finished” product above is exactly what I get when I do what Marsha did a decade ago; selectively-breed the pink/coral examples one too many generations. Bonus Pic . . .
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SMR Extreme ReverseOkeetee. The primary distinction between classic Reverse (Amel) Okeetees and these is that most of the centers of the saddles in Extremes lack color, rendering virtually pattern-less white markings. It takes a few generations to get here from classic Reverse Okeetees, but it’s well worth it. We will be selling babies of these later this summer. Bonus Pic . . .
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SMR Fluorescent Corn Snake. This is not related to Rich Zuchowski’s similar Amelanistic (albino) corn morph, Fluorescent Orange, though they look very much alike in appearance. As Rich did, we started our line with a wild-type Extreme example Okeetee bred to a classic Amelanistic. We dropped the name “Orange” from our Fluorescent morph name because we make some that have orange largely supplanted by red, but also to denote that these are not related to any of his stock. Does this make ours special? Certainly not, since anyone can make corns like this one by starting the way Rich and I did, but from there it takes many years and generations of selecting the best target phenotypes to breed to one another. I cannot think of an Amelanistic version of corn that offers more pleasing color and contrast than these. This photograph also dramatically demonstrates how most gene mutations in snakes would make them glowing targets for predators in the wild.
